The UN says World Wildlife Day is to "celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that conservation provides to people"
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Global petition to the President of Indonesia to immediately protect Sumatran tigers from habitat loss due to deforestation and to enforce existing laws to stop illegal poaching. Less than 400 tigers inhabit the island of Sumatra and they need help now.

The critically endangered brown bear, eagle, pheasant, and quail are close to extinction from Albanian and European hunters, mostly from Italy. Thank Albania for imposing a two-year hunting ban to address the critical state of endangered wildlife.

Global Petition to The Brazilian Institute of Environmental and Renewable Resources (IBAMA) to prevent The Amazon River's Pink Dolphins from being speared, killed and endangered by the disregard of local fishermen for this kind species.

Snow leopards, with only 6,500 left in the wild, are considered an endangered species. Many factors affect the big cats' well-being including habitat loss due to logging, poaching and retribution hunting. Global Petition to help them in Afghanistan.

These Beautiful Tigers are being slaughtered at a rate of 1 per week, they are already an Endangered Species. Please sign this petition and hopefully those Governments concerned will take heed and do something about these poachers before it is too late.

There are dozens of animals out there that you may not know about. Not only that, but these animals are incredibly unique and some are adorable, but No. 17 will haunt me. Sadly some of these lesser known animals are already endangered eg the maned wolf.

This barbaric practice must come to a stop! Sharks are an important part of the oceanic ecosystem and by killing them off you are harming that very delicate balance. Stop doing it China! 144 signatures is not enough, we must get to ten thousand!

The Chinese White Dolphin has many threats to survival and only 60 are living in the western waters of Hong Kong. Sign to help WWF to extend the existing marine park and also protect nearby waters in West Lantau and Soko Islands to save this species.

Petition Scottish Natural Heritage to protect and save the last 40 remaining Scottish Wildcats. Felis silvestris grampia (Scottish Wildcat) has occupied this earth for millions of years, and it is now being wiped out by humans and breeding with pet cats.

State governments allowed hunting during spring, the time wolves are denning, putting pregnant or nursing mothers and pups at risk of being shot on sight; increased the quota of lives to be taken; permitted silencers; and allowed kill methods

This so enraged Congress that it delisted Idaho and Montana wolves itself with a law passed in April 2011. It was the first congressionally mandated ESA delisting a horrible, weakening precedent for our best and strongest environmental law

Documents obtained from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show last month's proposal to remove most federal protections for gray wolves was preordained three years ago in a series of meetings ...